Improvement in buckles



UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN PECKHAM,

on lNEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,758, dated September4, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J. PECKHAM, of New Haven, in the county'of New Havenand State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBuckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionWith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, and representin Figure l, the buckle completed; Fig. 2, the frame of the buckle; andin Fig. 3, the tongue.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of buckles usedupon clothing 5 and consists in a peculiar formation of the tongue andits connection with the frame, whereby less metal is required thanin.the ordinary construction, while equal strength and firmness aresecured.

To enable others to construct my improvement I will proceed to describemy invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the frame, its two ends curved and turned up to receive the tongueB. The tongue is formed from a piece of round Wire, its two endspointed, as seen in Fig. 3. Be-

ing placed upon the frame, as seen in Fig. l,

the ends of the frame around the straight to hold it therein, forms ahinge for the tongue.v The long straight back part of the tongue thusforms a side ot' the frame, and over it the end of the strap secured, bythe tongues, may be passed.

Heretofore buckle-tongues have been constructed in similar manner, butspread more at the end a, and Ithe frame hinged tothe tongue at d.

By my improved construction I save so much metal as is required to thusspread that part of the tongue, being about fteen per cent.; in additionto which saving the frame is united to the tongue, in my improvement,With much are bent over` and part of the tongue-piece,

.greater facility than in the buckles as heretofore constructed.

Having, therefore, thus fully described my improvement, what I claim asnew and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Thev combination ofthe frame A and tongue B, formed and hinged togetherin the manner u herein set forth.

J. PEGKHAM. Witnesses:

J CHN E'. EARLE, JOHN H. SHUMWAY.

as seen in Fig. l. This

